Ken Jacobs Movies

One of Ken Jacobs' Eternalisms.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

An Eternalism film.

Polaroid 3D short film by Ken Jacobs.

An experiment in 3D abetted by a Pulfrich filter, originally theorized in the 1920s. Features water cinematography by Phil Solomon.

Home movie by Ken Jacobs. Black and white and silent.

An Eternalism film.

This work is derived from one of Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern performances, which are created with a hand-manipulated projector and use neither film...

3D Polaroid *Note: Must be viewed on 3D monitor with polaroid glasses Duration: 6'24 Year: 2015 Sound

3D film by Ken Jacobs

An Eternalism film.

Ken Jacobs at a Chinese restaurant.

Part of his “Nervous System” performances, the artist’s skills as a projectionist were highlighted when he invented this specially...

An Eternalism film.

Three identical prints of a single 100 foot fixed-camera take are shown from beginning to end-roll light-flare, with a few feet of blackness...

An Eternalism film.

An eternalism.

Music composition by Harrison Birtwistle, 1971 tape realized by Peter Zinovieff. Nervous Magic Lantern performance by Ken jacobs, 1990.

"One of the nice things about movies was you could keep them at a distance. Movies knew their place. We were dimensional, they were flat, so it was...